Bobby Gregg

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When Bob Dylan ditched his acoustic folk guitar and “plugged in” with a rock’n’roll band, the man he chose to provide the backbeat to the howling fusion of folk and rock music that followed was drummer Bobby Gregg.

Gregg’s involvement with Dylan spanned little more than 12 months, between 1965 and 1966, but it was the most explosive year of Dylan’s career and Gregg played on many of his most seminal recordings, including Like A Rolling Stone, Subterranean Homesick Blues and Maggie’s Farm.

Gregg’s role in the recording of Like A Rolling Stone was particularly significant. Unquestionably one of rock